DIGITALFLASH PRESENTS

WHAT WE WEARTHE WEARABLE TECH REVOLUTION

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Where do we go from here?

Join us on July 24th as we dive into the world of Wearable Tech. We gathered a group of experts in the field to discuss the current state of wearables, what the future holds, what the challenges are as new companies enter the marketplace, and more for our latest panel--

Speakers

Billie Whitehouse

As director and designer Billie is invigorating the fashion industry and transforming it into a business focused on improving the quality of our lives. Billie has been recognised for her work on FUNDAWEAR, with the campaign receiving a Silver Lion at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and was nominated in the Women 2.0 Awards as Female Founders to Watch. Billie is an aesthetic specialist with a naturally inquisitive nature towards technology and innovation. As a garment engineer she strongly believes people should not have to look like the technology that they have grown to love and depend on.

Sean Montgomery

Sean Montgomery is a technologist, educator and new-media artist in New York City. From developing wearable bio-sensors and algorithms that derive meaning from sensor data to creating interactive new-media art installations that have shown around the world, Sean’s work focuses on how technology can enhance our understanding of ourselves and create new ways for people to interact with one another and the objects around them.

Alina Balean

Alina Balean is a 2015 Master’s candidate at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) in the Tisch School. She’s an innovative, ambitious and creative individual with extensive professional experience creating visual campaigns and overseeing art direction for various companies in multiple industries and now designing texting sweaters.

Eddie Hold

Eddie Hold is the Vice President of The NPD Group's Connected Intelligence business unit. In this role, Eddie is responsible for managing the overall unit, maintaining the direction, creation and expansion of the content. He also works closely with clients to help shape their strategies within the connected ecosystem as the market adapts to embrace convergent devices and the blurring of home and mobile strategies for device, content, and broadband access. He is also a leading spokesperson for the wearable market, looking at the technology, adoption and ongoing use of these devices.